Bounty Hunters: Essential or Afterthought?

While I believe that during the early alpha many players will engage in corruption to test the system and find potential loopholes, I am confident that Intrepid Studios will refine the corruption penalties to meet their intended goals before the official launch. If this happens, much like in Lineage 2, corruption might not be a significant issue. Players are likely to prefer other forms of PvP, especially since the seas offer penalty-free opportunities. However, do you think there will be enough work for bounty hunters in this context? If not, what ideas can you suggest to prevent bounty hunting from becoming an afterthought?

I apologize , I just saw there is a similar post below, at least I know someone else is thinking the same thing lol.

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Solvryn

TheHiddenDaggerInn wrote: »

While I believe that during the early alpha many players will engage in corruption to test the system and find potential loopholes, I am confident that Intrepid Studios will refine the corruption penalties to meet their intended goals before the official launch. If this happens, much like in Lineage 2, corruption might not be a significant issue. Players are likely to prefer other forms of PvP, especially since the seas offer penalty-free opportunities. However, do you think there will be enough work for bounty hunters in this context? If not, what ideas can you suggest to prevent bounty hunting from becoming an afterthought?

I apologize , I just saw there is a similar post below, at least I know someone else is thinking the same thing lol.

Corruption doesn't loop back into the game, is half the problem with the Bounty Hunter system.

Once they address that loop, Bounty Hunting may have a chance.

Texas

Maybe I just didn't play the right games, but even before the days of structured PvP, I've never played an MMO where bounty hunting was a focused activity rather than something you just did on the side. Like I've never logged on and thought bounty hunting for a few hours was what I was going to do and that it could actually occupy that time. It's more like something that just emerges while playing normally and sends you off on a tangent. Which is one of the best things about the older MMOs - fun could (and quite often did) randomly happen.

ExiledByrd

No farmer is going to go corrupted for a farming spot. That means you drop 8X as many mats as a combatant. And the next person gets to kill you penalty free. You'll even drop gear on top of it.

Arya_Yeshe

Ludullu_(NiKr) wrote: »

As I've been saying for years now - I hope the BH system gets expanded.

agreed, in fact we agree more often than we disagree, and rethinking the whole BH system is a big priority in my book

Depraved

ExiledByrd wrote: »

No farmer is going to go corrupted for a farming spot. That means you drop 8X as many mats as a combatant. And the next person gets to kill you penalty free. You'll even drop gear on top of it.

lots of people will get corrupted over a farming spot.

daveywavey

Otr wrote: »

Or the Bounty Hunting should be possible for a longer time, even after the Red is not Red anymore.

And thus, was the Orange corruption status born. And there was much rejoicing amongst the peoples.

Dimitraeos

Depraved wrote: »

ExiledByrd wrote: »

No farmer is going to go corrupted for a farming spot. That means you drop 8X as many mats as a combatant. And the next person gets to kill you penalty free. You'll even drop gear on top of it.

lots of people will get corrupted over a farming spot.

True, but the ability to deal with excessive ganking should prevent it from going overboard (stat reduction). At some point the ganker should be so gimped that they need to buzz off.

ExiledByrd

Depraved wrote: »

ExiledByrd wrote: »

No farmer is going to go corrupted for a farming spot. That means you drop 8X as many mats as a combatant. And the next person gets to kill you penalty free. You'll even drop gear on top of it.

lots of people will get corrupted over a farming spot.

A green player will drop 20-30% of thier materials. A corrupted will drop 80-120%(guessing cap is actually 100%). Unless you are very sure that you can get it off very quickly there is no way it is worth it to kill for a farming spot.

It would make more sense to hire a body guard and get them to kill off the other gatherers.

Goalid

I think bounty hunters should have caravan attacks pop up on their map, even though the caravan bandits shouldn't get any corruption.

Arya_Yeshe

Goalid wrote: »

I think bounty hunters should have caravan attacks pop up on their map, even though the caravan bandits shouldn't get any corruption.

LOL
as a bounty hunter i would rush there and join the attackers

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